Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1941 — Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941

Saboteurs i

Impede Nazi Forces|

n Bulgaria

Oil Trains and Bridges Blown Up and Telegraph!

Lines Cut in Undercover Campaign.

STANBUL, Turkey, March 20

today that Bulgarian underground

(U. P).—A report reached Istanbul organizations had started on the

greatest sabotage campaign ever seen in southeastern Europe to impede

the German armies and that they munications in southeastern Bulgar

had already thrown German comia into a chaotic state,

The report was brought by an authoritative anti-German Bulgarian

who had just escaped Turkish-Bulgarian border. He said Bulgarian saboteurs had

dynamited at least two German oil

blown up bridges and cut telegraph lines. He asserted that every telegraph line in southern Suigaria had been damaged during | he last two weeks. The informant said that political elements who had long been bitter enemies had united to oppose the German march and that among them were many men who had gained notoriety for skill with bombs and dynamite According hundreds of

trains,

informant, agents operating for the organizations had been well supplied with money and dynamite and plans had been made for es-| pionage and subversive propaganda. | The saboteurs had even planned io destroy this summer's Bulgarian crops as part of their work of impeding the Germans, the informant | said. He asserted that the leader of the| saboteurs was a prominent Macedonian who was operating from a hideout in the Macedonian mountains The

10 the

informant heorg- | leader of anization, reserve of-

Germans, the said, had arrested Kimon lev, former Premier and the patriotic Zvenoist org composed of Bulgarian

Nazi Bombs

across the|—

by

ficers, and the prominent Agrarian leader Gregor Vassilev,

Report Nest of Spies Caught in Sofia

5 Son Bulgaria, March 20 (OU, ~-Police said today that they had! ie a nest of spies who had confessed that they were working for the British intelligence service and had received monthly salaries tor military information transmitted to! British agents, The Ministry of Interior “asked” Bulgarians to stop listening to Lone don broadcasts, the Bulgarian language.

British Are Blamed In Dispatch to Berlin

BERLIN, March 20 (U. P.).—An official news agency dispatch from Sofia reported today that Bulgarian

police had disclosed the discovery of | a widespread espionage net directed! the British secret service, with

foreigners as principal agents. Police described the plot as “primarily of a military character,” according to the agency, and announced that a number of persons had been arrested and had confessed.

Blast London

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German planes were stuary. Yellow parachute flares came In pairs. high above the city for a few tacularly

as

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Machine guns shot savage

1"

oil}

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The great guns joined

in, sky seemed filled by There was a great white flash

one raider in the suburbs.

slg

flares, bur

hted flying up the Thames

began to drop over the city.

They would remain almost stationary minutes and then burst specin a cascade of yellow hail.

lv at the flares as the tempo of

1 fire increased and incendiary bombs began dropping. battery

by battery. Soon the sting shells and tracer bullets. in the sky as the guns struck

(Cheer as Bomber Cracks Up

Then there was an explo a German plane whizzing silence for a moment and then and civilians. were downed later.

groups of

through the air.

sion and the sound of bits of There was, a cheer burst from gun crews

It was reported that three more was asked to intervene in a strike

"Returns Smiling

especially those in' |

.| Service and the Office of

Way to Norfolk for Overhauling. (Continued from Page One)

this country’s initial naval aid to Britain under the new Lend-Lease Law. Small, fast craft suitable for work in the English Channel—mosquito boats, submarine chasers, fast motorboats and yachts—will be the first vessels to be transferred, he said; none has been dispatched yet

first transfer. Mr. Knox revealed that three or four days ago the British asked the United States to repair some of their naval vessels. He declined to

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say what ships the British want

| repaired on the ground that it was

did say facili-

military information. He that there are some repair

| ties immediately available and that { “at the moment, there would be no

| embarrassment”

to our own naval

| program,

| {

Col. William (Wild Bill) Donovan smiles from his car in New York following his return by clipper from Europe where he toured the Balkans and other war zones as a special observer for Navy Secretary Frank Knox. Col. Donovan reported to President Roosevelt and Mr. Knox at the White House yesterday.

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Naval Officials Silent

Naval officials declined to comment on the report that a British cruiser might be en route to Norfolk now for repair work, pointing out that they would not discuss their own ship movements and could not be expected to discuss those of the British. Some reports said the vessel might be a battle-cruiser Janes’ Fighting Ships lists three in the British Navy—the Hood, Repulse and Renown—all larger than battleships, but speedier because of light armor. Meanwhile, Senator Burton K Wheeler (D. Mont.), and Wendell L. Willkie exchanged words in a renewal of the controversy aroused by the original British aid measure when Mr. Wheeler led the opposition and Mr. Willkie was a leading supporter,

PUSH EFFORTS T0 END STRIKES

en

F. D. R. Asked to Intervene In One of 29 Disputes At Arms Plants.

By UNITED PRESS Government mediators and agencies began strong action today to fend 29 disputes in national defense industries before the newly created |super-mediation board begins work next month. Pressure was exerted by the War | Department, the U. S. Conciliation Produc-| tion Management in several of the, largest of the disputes involving] ‘more than $100,000,000 worth of de- | fense orders. President Roosevelt

that threatened to close the entire West Coast aircraft industry which

Fires soon were burning in buildings ¢ of all sorts, includ- produces 65 per cent of the U. 8

mg movie houses and shops. At places of homes were wrecked and the families living in them were in the ruins. Fow straddled eightapartment house, In which were 400 people, includ-

Some

OWS

buried hombs one

story

ing refugees from other city | areas. Three London's and one in stroyed by fire.

luxurious homes in one of | most exclusive streets, | a street nearby, were dePriceless paintings were burned in them. In this area] men and women in evening dress ran into the street to put out fire | bembs. I'wo high explosives struck one) hospital. The 166 patients were evacuated by nurses and others of the staff under a rain of explosive bombs. Eight wards were wrecked and 12 others put out of action Five nu were buried in the debris when a bomb struck another hospital, and one patient was Killed outright.

rses

irses were dug out by mem-' bers of the hospital staff, men and who dug into the debris bare hands. As they worked a high explosive hamb crashed throuzh the roof of a wing of the hospital, a few yards

The ni

women,

with their

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Is the Traffic Record

Total 13

Here City mn 17

County

5 12

1940 1241 —~—March 19—

f : 3

Accidents Arrests 70

TRAFFIC COURT |

Cases Convic- Fines tried tions 31 24

6 5

injured Dead WEDNESDAY Violations Speeding . Reckless driving Failure to stop at through street Disobeying traffic signals Drunken All others

17 14 10 40 98

2 5 A 2 17

driving. 2 28

Totals m3 8

MEETINGS TODAY Lilly & of

Schoo! breakfast,

5

University Pharmacy, m

o., of 13

Th tL Jentina } Severin

Eli Lilly & Ceo PY

Kansas City College of eakfast, Hotel Severin, 8:15 lis Real Estate Board, lunch

ndianapol ashington, noon

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Athletic pb. noon.

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janapolis Aran ' ub,

luncheon, Hot el Severin, jon League of anstiuelid) N. Pennsvivania St. Indianapolis Camera Club, meeting, Ninth St. 8 aoa Sets Pi,

A Taha Chi Alpha Association, afeteria, n CO A Evils Motor Transportation Club, Inc., luncheon. Fox's Steak House, noon. Sigma Nu. luncheon, Columbia Club, |

“Retail Credit Glanters, Hotel Lincoln, nig + Toastmasters’ Clubs No. 6 p

( . An. Electro & ppliance uncheon, Hotel Washington, Federal Business Association, Hotel Washington, 12:15 Pir n Auto Accessory & Petroleum Group, dinner, Hotel Ww AH n..m Indianapolis Conference Bank Auditors, | dinner otel Washington, 6 p. m

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Sixma Chi, luncheon, Canary Cottage, Exchange Club, n Gniimist Club,

“Res serve Officers’ Stegemeler Cafe, night Phi Delta Theta, luncheon tage. noon Delta Tau Delta, Club, noon,

luncheon,

oil Club,

noon, 110}

Cot-

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luncheon, Canary

dinner meeting , dinner, Y. W. Credit 12:05 n \uricheon,

Credit 5:30

Gloup,

luncheon, Hotel Severin,

luncheon, Columbia Club, Association, dinner, Canarv Cnt-

luncheon, Columbia!

halted

36 15%

16 1p

Advertising Club, af Indighapelis, lunchn at Temple, |

noon. | Indianapolis, |

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from a group of fire spotters, spottees. unhurt, hegan at once to kick the incendiary bombs which followed. Another bomb destroyed nurses’ home of this hospital “The nurses did their duty Florence Nightingale tradition,”

ont

the

in the the

‘house physician said.

In one police station a rescue

squad was trapped.

Some policemen and two women were killed when a homb sliced an-| other police station in two. At the height of the raid, when the Germans were flying over in|

long single files, the Fire Depart-| |staff, said that he understood that

[ment brought out water towers to! | fight fires in shops and an air raid| precautions center in one district. For the first time in many nights| the searchlights were turned on to spot German planes for the gunners When 50 incendiary denly blazed in one and passengers leaped out to douse them. Dogs and cats were trapped in the ruins of an animal hospital. Rescuers got them out safely. Despite the raid, Londoners, redeyed, angry but uncowed, returned to work today

hombs sudstreet a bus and crew

Hotel

Cottage,

Indiana Stamn Club, meeting Antlers 8 p.m Kappa Sigma, noon Indiana Section, Engineers, dinner S p.m, Indianapolis Chapter. American Welding i Socieg’, meeting. American United Lite ie surance Company auditorium, 7:30 p. Purdue University, band concert, neater, night. Construction League of annual dinner, Hotel Lincoln, Shell 0il Co.,

ton, all day.

luncheon, Canary

of Automotive Antlers,

Society meeting, Hotel

Murat

Indianapotis, nigh

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records |

in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and 4daresses,)

William ©. Frick |Figrence Thelma Robson,

Robert N, Wilson, 21, of 651 FE. Woodruff Place; Evelyn Childress. "sy Congress. Valter Newton Wacker, 25 , Alberta M. Gabriel, 23, 43, of 707 22nd;

Delaware. Willard J. South, E. {Hazel Garrett Nelson, 33, of 1932 Caroline {a Dalton E. Lucas, 22, of 1416 Hoyt: Margaret Hazel Osmon, 19. of 707 E. 9th, Charles William McClain, 19, of Wanamaker. Ind.; Betty Joan Bowen, 19, Blufiton. Ind a avmond V 3 v J. Wilkins, 20. Genes Otis William Jones, Beulah M. McCarty.

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BIRTHS

Girls George Jane Reed. at Coleman Roy, Esther Johnson, at Methodist Riley, Florence Wilcoxson, at Methodist William, Marianna _Royne, at St. : Edward, Virginia Eaton. at St. George, Helen Miller, at St. Boys Paul, Dorothy Daily, at Coleman. Clyde. Georgia Warner, at City Albert, Gertrude Lutz, at Methodist. Charles, Mary Bush, at St. Francis. Chester, Zula Sprinkles, at St. Vincent's. Benjamin. Rosemary Browne, at 1010 urdsal Parkway. Joseph, Velvalea Browder,

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DEATHS phia Salat aa gher, ih at 3434 Ww, Michigan, | hypertension. Henry E Wagner, at 1808 Carrollton, | | coronary occlusion “cits. 2asiro enteritis at Methodist,

Blue, 72, at Central Indiana, hemortha ze. So 130 N. Drexel, hy postatic pneum Martha Bu cdward H. gharun, 68, ( vascular renal. 58, 615 Dorman, coronary thrombosis Alva Snodgrass, 62 Phillip Shobe, 35, Citv, diabete Kenneth Harrison, months, at George H. Sirp, 68 ear-| cinoma City,

Garry Princell, #0. at hvperten-

Methodist, pulMethodist, |

51 Thoma 8 Stant 7? PPL tuberculosis, Leatha Hubinger, thrombosis, 3

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at 2365 Parker. |

‘output. The War Department revealed an order had heen drafted to employ Government, workers at the strikeField U. 8S. Army | ‘aviation testing center construction! {project at Davton, O.. unless a set-! tlement was reached by noon in a “final” conference.

Deadline Passes

The deadline passed without any announcement of any move. War | Department officials would not| | comment on whether any reply had | ‘been received from union officials | in Dayton. Joseph D. Keenan, secretary of the A, F. of L. council in Chicago and a member of OPM Associate Director Sidney Hillman's labor

|the “deadline” had been extended. H. L. Harvill, president of the Harvill Die Casting Corp. at Ingle- | wood, Cal., appealed to Mr. Roose'velt to intervene in a strike of 350 C. 1. O. die casters at his plant. He charged the union was attempting to sabotage the national defense program and predicted that unless a settlement is reached by the end of the month, all airplane plants on the West Coast would be closed because of lack of supplies. The die casters went on strike for wage increases of 25 cents an hour, a closed shop and adjustment of hours.

Amma Vance, 87, at Centra) Infilana

arteriosclerosis William G. McCurdy lobar pneumonia.

35. at St, Vincent's,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST Partly | cloudy tonight with lowest temperature [30 to 35: tomorrow mostly cloudy and slightly colder.

Sunset Ter 55%

5:8 1 TEMPERATURE —March 20, 1940— 36 : Bom; BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m.. 30.06 Precipitation 24 “hrs. ending 7 &: Total precipitation since Satis { Deficiency Since Jan, 1 Sih

Sunrise.

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Partly cloudy, except cloudy

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| a discussion of the { than in constant indulgence in per-

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Wheeler Offers to Debate

Mr. Wheeler, offering to debate Mr, Willkie over a nation-wide ra- | dio program from Chicago early | next month, said Mr. Willkie was { well qualified to defend President Roosevelt's foreign policy because “of his former close connection with the House of Morgan and his imtimate knowledge of the needs of Great Britain gained as a result of a week's tour of England, Ire- { land and Scotland.” Mr. Willkie replied that “it would be quite helpful and very refreshIng in this critical moment of the world's history if Senator Wheeler would devote more of his time to issues rather

sonaljties.” 3

Today's

War Moves

(Continued from Page One)

| Reter of the German reports is due to sudden accuracy in British hombings as though previous attacks really had been resultless. There have been too many Royal Air Force

(assaults on German cities for that |

explanation to he acceptable Sensitive to Foreign Opinion

One possible reason for the change |in German publicity methods is the skepticism created abroad regarding tne accuracy of Nazi reports. The Germans are sensitive to foreign opinion when it reflects on their efficiency and it is scarcely efficient propaganda always to claim great damage to objectives in enemy territory and none to one's own. The British have gained a reputation for much frankness in admitting losses to themselves, which increases belief in their reports of their own successes. The Germans have been deficient in not realizing the importance of obtaining a reputation for at least some degree of truthful reporting. World public opinion is much influenced hy the degree of trust hat can be placed in official communiques. The world knows that the German people are not allowed to know all that is going on outside their own land, for heavv penalties including the death sentence, are imposed on German citizens listening to foreign broadcasts. But it is not to Germany's advantage to pretend to the world that German cities have a miracu-

lous immunity from falling bombs. |

People to Learn Facts Another reason that may explain the more open policy of admitting {losses is the impossibility of conceal|ing the consequences of air attacks. indefinitely, from the German peo‘ple, themselves. Such news inevitably spreads and when it does so by ‘word of mouth, the natural tendency is for the original story to grow, People in a bombed German city know what has happened, in gen-

; eral, and they cannot be prevented

from telling their tales as they travel. That is a condition not advantageous to maintaining home

— | motale.

The Fuehrer cannot afford to per-

o | mit his followers to obtain an im-

pression that he is deceiving them. With the tempo of British air raids over Germany now increasing, more and more damage is certair to be

with light rain in extreme southwest por-| in north-central por-|

tion, slightly colder tion tonight; tomorrow cloudy. rain in extreme south and west portions hy late aftj ernoon or night, slightly ‘and central portions. Minois—Partly cloudy to cloudy, casional rain in south portion tonight, to- { morrow cloudy, rain in south and rain or snow beginning in north portion in afternoon or at night: slightly colder in south] and central portions i Lower Michigan — | slightly colder tonight; ing cloudiness. Ohin—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, followed by rain in southwest portion tomorrow afternoon or night; slightly colder in south and central portions tomorrow; Saturday rain and colder in south, and snow or rain and slightly colder in north portion, Kentucky—Cloudy tonight, rain and somewhat colder Saturday rain.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

Station Weather Bar, Temp. | Amarillo, Tex. . .Cloudy 29.82 43 | Bismarck, D | Boston Chicago Cincinnati Shcreland

Dod ge "City, Kas... .... Jacksonville, Fla. ..... | Kansas City, Mo....... | Little Rock. Ark . 8s Los TE aks eattag Mia Fla. has | Minnea polis- St. Paul..C | Mobile, Ala. . : {New Orleans : New York i Oklahoma City, Okla. |Omana, Neb | Pittsburgh List | Fortland, Ore : San Antonio, Tex... San Francisca

18 out Tampa. F ‘Was! ton. Pb. C.

oc- |

Partly eloudv and tomorrow increas-

followed bv tomorrow;

oh Cloudy Cloudy

colder in south

inflicted. To continue to tell the people of Germany that the results are unimportant and inconsequential {would seem to be poor moral stra[tegy. The facts must circulate withlin Germany, in some form or other. and it would seem wiser for Hitler to allow the Government io make the sad admissions rather than to try to fool the people against their own knowledge.

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Army Laundry Is 'Steamlined'

WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. P.).—Modern motorized war tactics have caught up with the oldfashioned wash tub, the War Department disclosed today. The Army is developing a portable field laundry unit complete | with washing machine, dryer, gen- | erator, water heater and a 50-gai-lon fuel tank to handle the weekly washing of about 1500 troops. DIES IN ROCK FALL SULLIVAN, Ind, March 20 rt P.),—Charles Carlin Jr. 29, died last night, six hours after being crushed beneath a heavy fall of rock at the Peerless Mine,

Cruiser Already Reported on

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

U. S. TO REPAIR President Lays Plans to Aid Other Powers in Establishing BRITISH CRAFT Post-War 'New Deal’ for World Based on 'Four Freedoms'

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and no destroyers will be in the

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io see made into an accomplished their relations with one another, and generation.” And he has pube fact. and, " licly committed the country not only On July 4, 1918, President Wilson| 4, The establishment of an organ-, “total effort” and “total victory”

. named “the four ends” for which, f peace wh ident Roosevelt, it can now be said, he said, “the associated peoples of mations o pas orld will citeog | the war but pledged it to “cone

is already laying his plans to make the world are fighting and which levery invasion of right and serve to| ‘tinue to play its great part in the

the United States must be conceded to them before ; » make peace and justice mor y jointly responsible there can be peace.” These were: ie Ek a Jostice 0 ® va period of world reconstruction” to with other pow-, 1. The destruction of arbitrary! ‘to which all must submit. | follow. Freedom from want, translated

ers after the war power everywhere that can sep- The “f freed " which Prest 3 Or i / } - 3 | for a new world arately, secretly and of its single crm a1t oe ha TTES1=] 11to world terms, the President has said, means “economic understand-

order based upon choice disturb the peace of the dent Roosevelt would make the basis ings which will secure to every

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March 20.—Pres-

what he has! world. lof his new world order are:

called “the four | 2. The settlement of every ques-| 1. Freedom of speech and expres- | nation a healthy peacetime life for freedoms.” {tion, whether of territory or sov- sion. its inhabitants.” Similarly, by Thus what Pres- | | ereignty, of economic arrangement, 2, Freedom of every person to freedom from fear he means “a ident Wilson vain- {or of political relationship, upon the! worship God in his own way. | world-wide reduction of armaments ly gave his life to basis of the free acceptance of the| 3. Freedom from want, and, to such a point and in such bring about —a| 'peoples concerned. 4. Freedom from fear. | thorough fashion that no nation reign of law based | 3. The consent of all nations to, These may not be immediately will be in a position to commit an Mr. Simms upon the consent be governed in their conduct toward attainable everywhere, the Pr esi-| act of physical aggression against a of the governed |each other by the same principles | dent admits. But, he has said, they | neighbor.” and sustained by the organized of honor and respect for the com- are “no distant millennium.” They, President Roosevelt's new order, opinion of mankind—President|{mon law of civilized society that!form “a definite basis for a kind of therefore. is similar to President Roosevelt, is said to be determined govern the individual citizens in world attainable in our own time Wilson's but goes even further.

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